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acroamatics

acroamatics noun: esoteric lectures.

Noun

acroamatics pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) esoteric lectures.
    • Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten...2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257

Origin of acroamatics

From acroamatic + -ics.

Questions about acroamatics

What does acroamatics mean?
Acroamatics means esoteric lectures.
What part of speech is acroamatics?
Acroamatics is a noun.

Words near acroamatics in the dictionary

  1. acroamata
  2. acroamatic
  3. acroamatical
  4. acroamatically
  5. acroamatick
  6. acroamatics
  7. acroanaesthesia
  8. acroanesthesia
  9. acroangiodermatitis
  10. acroarthritis
  11. acroases

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